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For Whom the Bell Tolls
« on: September 21, 2012, 02:55:48 AM »
For Whom the Bell Tolls, Feature Article by RE now UP on the Diner Blog!

My first Geopolitical Article in a while, straying off my usual Economics stuff and AutoBio stuff.  The shit going down in Spain now is getting very intense.

I pulled out ALL the emotional stops in this article Sportsfans, including also Multimedia from Guns n' Roses and Metallica and the COMPLETE Meditation XVII Poetry of John Donne!

This better get some response here in the Diner or I will go on the Warpath. LOL.

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« Reply #1 on: September 21, 2012, 03:21:26 AM »
Great article.

Guess I think the real ramifications of what you're talking about won't come home to roost in FSofA for 20 years. Just too apathetic and fat for the most part to get out and fight. In Europe the culture of revolution is pretty fresh, and they're leaner too.

USSR collapsed because of years and years of hardship. Desperation over decades. Spain has only been really crappy for what, two years? I can't imagine civil war in Spain for 10 years.

Maybe it's all from the luxury of my comfy chair. But I lived in Europe for a spell. People there are super coddled too. They just want their good coffees and cool scooters. Don't think they have any idea what they'd be fighting for yet. Countries in USSR knew EXACTLY what they were fighting for. They'd had three generations to think about it.

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« Reply #2 on: September 21, 2012, 04:02:28 AM »
Excellent piece, RE!  :emthup:

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« Reply #3 on: September 21, 2012, 05:33:36 AM »
Excellent piece, RE!  :emthup:

Thanks p01!

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Re: For Whom the Bell Tolls
« Reply #4 on: September 21, 2012, 05:53:27 AM »
Now posted on the Doomstead Diner Facebook page.

IMHO, this article is vintage RE; pulling together a number of disparate ingredients to prepare a hearty stew. Worthy of your better efforts from back in the TBP days.

Good stuff.

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« Reply #5 on: September 21, 2012, 05:56:46 AM »
Great Article, I really hate to pick at it, but serious and most disturbing as it is, Spain, in my opinion is not enough to bring the whole edifice down, but will surely create massive problems.

China is the one to view with the most trepidation and horror as far as world wide contangion or repercussions go.

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« Reply #6 on: September 21, 2012, 07:08:40 AM »
The Catalans are just one potato in the soup; there are plenty of others, including this staged-for-TV set of riots in MENA. No way in hell I'm believing a shittly Youtube video of a bad movie lights up riots throughout the Ottoman Empire... there is definitely the whiff of false flag about all that.

BTW, every time I see pix from canaada and Europe with tens of thousands in the streets, I become very disappinted at our own feeble response to the Empire's "austerity."

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« Reply #7 on: September 21, 2012, 11:18:18 AM »
Great post RE! Keep up the good work and I hope more people get to read your works. No put your feet up and grab a nice cool beer for a job well done!

Great Article, I really hate to pick at it, but serious and most disturbing as it is, Spain, in my opinion is not enough to bring the whole edifice down, but will surely create massive problems.

Spain maybe not big enough - on its own - to bring the whole thing down but Spain could be big enough to cause the beginning of a cascade of failures that causes everything to unravel. It is possible that if Spain falls then it will bring down the Euro and once the Euro fails that could easily cause China to fail which then results in the failure of the US. Granted lots of ifs and buts in all that but I do not think it is such an implausible scenario despite that. Let us not forget that the longer this game goes on the weaker the balance sheets of the US, China and Eurozone becomes so their ability to withstand major shocks will reduce after every passing year. In 5 years time it could take a great deal less to bring the system down than today.

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« Reply #8 on: September 21, 2012, 03:59:42 PM »

IMHO, this article is vintage RE; pulling together a number of disparate ingredients to prepare a hearty stew. Worthy of your better efforts from back in the TBP days.


Thanks Surly.  Thanks also to everyone else who Ego Massaged here so far.

Now, get out there and PLUG the Article!  I dropped a Plug on Alt-Market, but I can't Plug on The Oil Drum, The Oil Age or The Automatic Earth anymore.

We are WHISPER thin close to crossing the Rubicon of the 1M mark on Alexa.  Let's put this one over the top!

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« Reply #9 on: September 21, 2012, 11:27:54 PM »
And Now, Back to Our Regularly Scheduled Programming...

The Catalans are just one potato in the soup; there are plenty of others, including this staged-for-TV set of riots in MENA. No way in hell I'm believing a shittly Youtube video of a bad movie lights up riots throughout the Ottoman Empire... there is definitely the whiff of false flag about all that.

BTW, every time I see pix from canaada and Europe with tens of thousands in the streets, I become very disappinted at our own feeble response to the Empire's "austerity."

The Muslim Mocking vids and cartoons don't seem as much like a False Flag as they do COINTELPRO of the Incitement to Riot variety.

With all these Muslim countries already completely ticked off, all you need to do to get a few Towel Heads really HOT is publish up some Mohammed Bashing Propaganda, and POOF, they "spontaneously" riot.  Then you use said Riots and Dead Ambassadors as your EXCUSE to go in and knock some sense into these Towel Heads who clearly do not believe in FREE SPEECH and besides that have NO SENSE OF HUMOUR!  LOL.

Clearly Economic Sanctions haven't been ENOUGH here to get the Iranians to Fire the First Shot, so our friends in the bak room who generate  up the Propaganda have revved up this means of Provocation to War.  Long as you know what Buttons to Push, its always possible to get somebody Pissed Off, I think I mentioned that in the ongoing Napalm Contest over in the Smokehouse.  Here on the Net, this only results in a few Laptop Screens spontaneously combusting, sadly out IRL it means entire COUNTRIES combusting and numerous DEAD PEOPLE.

Remember, Propaganda is a big part of any War Effort, and gets directed as necessary both at the "Enemy" and at your own population to soften them up for Conscription as Cannon Fodder.

Far as the greater numbers in the Street Demonstrations in Europe go, they are much further along in Austerity there than we are here.  The Wage and Pension Cuts through the Public Sector are big already and getting bigger all the time.  In the Private sector, Taxation is getting out of control and between that and the price of gas in Europe its making any kind of commerce nearly impossible.  We are not that far along over here yet.

Not to say there is not a Complacency Factor here in the FSoA, there most certainly is that involved as well.  However for the most part we just are not HURTING so bad here as there yet.  Spain has 25% regular UE and 50% Youth UE.  Those are Social Contract KILLING numbers.  The only surprising thing to me is that it still reamins moderately Peaceful. Not for too much longer I suspect.

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« Reply #10 on: September 22, 2012, 02:50:24 AM »
Great post RE  I wish i could get more people to read it ,because you deserve a bigger audience.Unfortunately down here in Tasmania the people i associate with in my daily travels ( I am a tradesman) .Seem to be so isolated from the worlds problems,Only 1 person i have talked too wanted to discuss what is really going on in the world.The rest were either uninterested, unbelieving,apathetic ,or down right hostile(small %).So many people can't even see the mining boom this country has been relying on is over, or our property prices will go down.Let alone that the world as we know it is unraveling.What i cannot get a handle on, is  the speed at which it is going to continue to occur at.The world seems to be so interconnected and manipulated,i guess i will only find out when it happens.Oh well it is has been a beautiful sunny day at start of spring. So i will just keep on enjoying the world we have, and preparing the best i can for when things aren't going to be so nice.
 Please keep the posts coming they are appreciated.

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« Reply #11 on: September 22, 2012, 03:12:48 AM »
Great post RE  I wish i could get more people to read it ,because you deserve a bigger audience.

Thanks Stewie.

I am Greatful I have as many readers as I do.  More than I ever expected really.  Probably in the thousands now based on the number of page hits.  The Diner continues to evolve and grow.

More readers is better.  So if you like the Diner, go PLUG it somewhere!  Pick a random board and drop a Link in to the Diner.  If EVERY Diner does this every day, it goes VIRAL.

Up to you guys to Plug the Diner if you think it is worthwhile reading.  I just Call it as I See it here now.  My days of Trolling OPBs are over.  I am pretty well Persona Non-Grata on everybody else's Website.  My No Censorship Policy and the fact I will Publish anyone who criticises any Blogger on the Net does not make me a Popular Fellow amongst the other Collapse Bloggers.

John Donne said "No Man is an Island", but for me, the Diner is my Island now, the ONLY place I can publish really.  So be it.  I just hope a few more people find their way here now.  Up to you to provide the Directions to the Diner.


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« Reply #12 on: September 22, 2012, 04:40:07 AM »
Hi

Fist of all sorry for my english, it is not my first language.

Stewie.

I share your feeling. I live on the Gold Coast and I talk about those subjects only with a few friends. Most of them do not believe. I can see what's is going on. What worries me the most is the conflict between China and Japan. It seems to me that we are on a cross fire in case the worse happens. The collapse is so in front of our eyes it is just hard to believe that people can't see it. Is it some kind of programming? Is it brainwashing? Is it the illusion that we always  have  to be positive? Even when the boat is sinkin?  as some kind of miracle will occur and we all be fine, like a happy ending on the movies?  Don't know the answer, however my feelings tell me that it is not the normal, this time is different.

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« Reply #13 on: September 22, 2012, 08:55:44 AM »
Great post RE.  I'm glad you paid appropriate attention to Greece in this article - it is ground zero and it appears Greece is inching closer to civil war:

From: New poll shows popularity of Greece's Golden Dawn at 22 percent
 
"As Golden Dawn becomes a more visible presence in Greece, politicians from other political parties are considering measures to reign in the authoritarian actions of its members. Athen News reported Interior Minister Nikos Dendias reiterated in parliament that 'We will not have stormtroopers in this country.' This was in response to supporters of Golden Dawn forming battalions across the country".
 

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« Reply #14 on: September 22, 2012, 09:31:20 AM »
RE and friends-my first visit to the diner (except for that LONG thread last week a friend sent me, which clued me in to your presence). Great post-what I so often bemoan about of MSM is the paucity of context and historical perspective, so it's refreshing to find that in your writings, RE. And the great Metallica video! Reminds me of Dave Cohens blog (are you banned there? Hope not-he's also an astute observer) Looking forward to more!